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Recent work
from Professor David H. Laidlaw's Visualization Research Lab is helping
scientists better understand connectivity in the brain.

At
the Information Visualization conference (InfoVis) in October, Ph.D. student
Hua Guo presented a poster about her novel tool, BraiNet, which visualizes the
graph of neuron projections between different brain parts. Her poster, titled ...

Fourth year Computer Science Ph.D. student Layla Oesper was one of three students chosen by the Rhode Island NSF Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program to represent the state at Supercomputing13, November 17-22, 2013, in Denver, Colorado.

A full story was published in The Brown Daily Herald on September 24, 2013.

Associate
Professor Chad Jenkins was named a 2013 National Geographic Emerging
Explorer for his research in Human-Robot Interaction, enabling new
capabilities for robots to learn from and interact with humans.

National
Geographic's Emerging Explorers Program recognizes and supports
uniquely gifted and inspiring explorers who are already making a
difference early in their careers.

Brown Ph.D. student Andrew Ferguson recently
defended the current design of Australia's National Broadband Network in an op-ed
published July 12, 2013, in Melbourne's The Age. The Australian government is
currently building a nation-wide network to provide broadband Internet service,
known locally as the NBN. The plan calls
for 93% of Australian ...

In a large metropolitan area such as NYC, the public transportation system is a vital part of the city's day-to-day operation. But transportation systems do not work for free: each of the millions of passengers they serve must pay for their rides. Let's take a look at their underlying payment systems.

In Fall
2012, I offered my course CSCI 1730. This is a junior-, senior-, and
beginning-graduate-level course in programming languages (not in how to
program, but rather in linguistic mechanisms). Together with my PhD student
(and graduate TA) Joe Politz, I decided to offer it on-line in addition to
in-class.

What sets Coursera apart from my
other experiences with distance learning (MIT's OCW, Stanford's video courses,
Khan Academy[1])?
All previous venues shared the essential qualities of being free, providing
rich video resources, being available on demand, and not being restricted by
prerequisites or tied to a syllabus (although Khan does supply a ...